System and method for positioning dental digital X-ray apparatus

US7580502B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SIRONA Dental Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Michael Dalpiaz · Zwingenberg, DE
• Ulrich Schulze-Ganzlin · Lorsch, DE
• Werner Gunther · Bensheim, DE
• Jurgen Zimmermann · Salzgitter, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 21, 2003
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2009
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B6/51
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An arrangement for positioning an X-ray machine, with an input and an output device, for interactive control, with a memory region, in which digitised X-ray images and X-ray machine data are stored, an interface, by means of which information is exchanged with the X-ray machine, a pointing device for selecting regions in digitized X-ray images, a processing unit, which carries out calculations based on the digitized X-ray images, the associated X-ray machine data and the selected region, in order to determine control data such that the X-ray machine is controlled whereby, on taking an image, the selected region is screened.